Wave mechanics (vibration and acoustics)

This textbook presents the fundamentals of engineering acoustics and examines in depth concepts within the domain that apply to reducing noise, measuring noise, and designing microphones and loudspeakers.

Advances in Imaging & Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics & Electron Physics and Advances in Optical & Electron Microscopy.

This book is the first of its kind.

Throughout history, hearing and sound perception have been typically framed in the context of how sound conveys information and how that information influences the listener.

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the fascinating topic of audio source separation based on non-negative matrix factorization, deep neural networks, and sparse component analysis.

Senior level/graduate level text/reference presenting state-of-the- art numerical techniques to solve the wave equation in heterogeneous fluid-solid media.

Radar Signal Processing and Its Applications brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast-moving area.

This book describes how human hearing works and how to build machines that analyze sounds in the same way that people do.

Ultrasonic Measurement Methods describes methods used in ultrasonic measurements and covers topics ranging from radiated fields of ultrasonic transducers to the measurement of ultrasonic velocity and ultrasonic attenuation, along with the physical principles of measurements with electromagnetic-acoustic transducers (EMATs).

Vibrational Spectra of Benzene Derivatives specifically deals with the problems of the vibrational spectra of benzene and its derivatives.

Epsilon-near-zero metamaterials connect engineering and material science, providing new possibilities in applications of microwave and optics.

This book presents the latest research on fundamental aspects of acoustic bubbles, and in particular on various complementary ways to characterize them.

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the use of software in combination with simple and economical hardware (a sound level meter with calibrated AC output and a digital recording system) to obtain sophisticated measurements usually requiring expensive equipment.

This unique volume presents an original approach to physical acoustics with additional emphasis on the most useful surface acoustic waves on solids.

This advanced monograph is concerned with modern treatments of central problems in harmonic analysis.

Information is a core concept in animal communication: individuals routinely produce, acquire, process and store information, which provides the basis for their social life.

This book is devoted to the study of the acoustic wave equation and of the Maxwell system, the two most common wave equations encountered in physics or in engineering.

Anchored in simple physics problems, the author provides a focused introduction to mathematical methods in a structured manner.

This book is ideal as a graduate textbook and reference for the advanced learner in fluid mechanics.

There have been few books devoted to the study of phonons, a major area of condensed matter physics.

This document was commissioned by the Facility Guidelines Institute as the sole reference for acoustics in health care facilities.

This book deals with unsteady combustor issues, which have posed key challenges associated with development of clean, high-efficiency combustion systems.

This volume collects the papers from the 2013 World Conference on Acoustic Emission in Shanghai.

Physical Acoustics: Principles and Methods, Volume III-Part B: Lattice Dynamics covers the interaction of acoustic waves with certain motions and wave types in solids that produce changes in their velocity and attenuation.

The transformation of acoustics into electro-acoustics, a field at the intersection of science and technology, guided by electrical engineering, industry, and the military.

This book is based on the contributions to the 17th International School of Materials Sci- ence and Technology, entitled Nonlinear Waves in Solid State Physics.

This 2007 book is about large-eddy simulation (LES) used for noise-reduced design and acoustical research.

The Physics of Music and Color deals with two subjects, music and color - sound and light in the physically objective sense - in a single volume.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Acoustical Imaging at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany during April 3 -5, 1991.

Dynamical systems and Nonlinear Waves in Plasmas is written in a clear and comprehensible style to serve as a compact volume for advanced postgraduate students and researchers working in the areas of Applied Physics, Applied Mathematics, Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear waves in Plasmas or other nonlinear media.

Roger Fosdick The Journal of Elasticity: The Physical and Mathematical Science of Solids invites expository articles from time-to-time in order to collect results in areas of research that have made significant impact on the field of solid mechanics and that show continued interest in present-day research and thinking.

Mathematical Modeling in Diffraction Theory: Based on A Priori Information on the Analytical Properties of the Solution provides the fundamental physical concepts behind the theory of wave diffraction and scattered wave fields as well as its application in radio physics, acoustics, optics, radio astronomy, biophysics, geophysics, and astrophysics.

This book derives physical models from basic principles, studies the effect of equivalent models on the dynamic characteristics of phononic crystals and acoustic metamaterials, and analyzes the physical mechanisms behind vibration and noise reduction.

This major new edition of a popular undergraduate text covers topics of interest to chemical engineers taking courses on fluid flow.

The optical properties of semiconductors have played an important role since the identification of semiconductors as "e;small"e; bandgap materials in the thinies, due both to their fundamental interest as a class of solids baving specific optical propenies and to their many important applications.

Quantum physics explores the behavior of matter and energy at the molecular, atomic, nuclear, and even smaller levels.

Developments in seismology including correlation techniques, heterogeneity and waveform inversion, illustrated with observational examples.

This book presents a novel method of grafting musical wind instruments by exchanging an instrument's standard mouthpiece with different tone generators.

Automatic modulation recognition is a rapidly evolving area of signal analysis.

Computer Networks, Architecture and Applications covers many aspects of research in modern communications networks for computing purposes.

This volume comprises the proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on the Science and Engineering of 1- and O-dimensional semiconductors held at the University of Cadiz from 29th March to 1st April 1989, under the auspices of the NATO International Scientific Exchange Program.

If quantum theories of the world are true-and empirical evidence suggests they are-what do they tell us about us, and the world?

Hearing is a comprehensive, authoritative reference work covering both the physiological and perceptual aspects of hearing.

This book deals with density, temperature, velocity and concentration fluctuations in fluids and fluid mixtures.

This proceedings book focuses on advances in theory, experiments and numerical simulations of fluid-structure-sound interactions related to turbulence, flow-induced vibration, noise and their control.